Double fatality in crash at Silkstone, Ipswich a horror start to New Year

POLICE have confirmed a 19-year-old from Blackstone and a 28-year-old New Zealand man were killed in a car crash at Silkstone on Tuesday.

A high-powered Subaru was travelling east-bound when the driver lost control and the car ploughed through the side of one home on Glebe Rd at Silkstone about 4.40am, killing the two passengers who were thrown from the car before it came to rest in a second yard.

It is believed the three men were cousins celebrating the New Year.

The 28-year-old from New Zealand had recently arrived in Queensland and was visiting friends and relatives for the holidays.

Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale said the residents of one of the houses impacted in the crash were extremely lucky to have escaped.

"There's glass all over the bed," Cr Pisasale said.

"It's just fortunate that he got up to help his daughter go to the toilet just before."

Neighbours said the 18-year-old driver managed to get out of the car, in shock and calling for his brother.

"At the start it sounded like a tree was collapsing then a bang," neighbour Neil Strode said.

"I saw the car on its roof. The driver was moving and we said he should stay in the car but he got out and asked 'where's my brother?'."

The car ploughed through the first house on the corner of Glebe and Thompson Street, narrowly missing the elderly couple sleeping inside.

The car then landed on its roof in the yard of the second house, where a woman in her 20s moved in just a week ago.

The 18-year-old man was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with severe head injuries.

Ipswich district Inspector David Preston said the passengers were thrown from the car but was unable to confirm if the passengers were wearing seatbelts.